I believe that I read somewhere that the new release date for GT5 would be announced towards the end of October. Well we are here but still no news.

A quick look on the net showed the following:

On October 6th, Sony launched a giveaway competition for a free Gran Turismo 5: Signature Edition package. Since that time, the competition was set to end on the old Australian release date, November 4th. That end date has remained unchanged (confirmed by http://au.playstation.com/psn/competitions/detail/item310501/GT5-Signature-Edition-Comp/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">Google’s cache) – until now. The legal terms and conditions have just been quitely updated to list a new ending date of December 9th.

I will be first to remind you this is not an official announcement or confirmation of a new release date for Gran Turismo 5. However, it is the first specific new date related to the game which has been found on any Sony website, and December 9th is a Thursday. Australia’s old date, November 4th, is also a Thursday – the day of the week typically reserved for big video game releases Down Under.

Assuming Sony plans to keep the same sequential worldwide release schedule for GT5, we could estimate a December 8th release in Europe/Japan and a December 7th release in North America. Obviously, these dates are also a Wednesday and Tuesday – the same as the original November dates. Furthermore, these dates fall at the tail end of Sony’s internal release date window, provided to me by a trusted source shortly after the delay was announced.

As you may recall, Sony was quick to reassure us the game would arrive “this holiday season” and announced they “expect” to confirm a new date before the end of October. Time is running out, as there are only two weekdays left in October as of writing – let’s hope the updated terms of this contest are an early indication the veil is about to be lifted.

Source: http://www.gtplanet.net/sony-australia-hints-at-gt5s-new-december-release-date/

The information is still at rumour level.

Feel free to post any news/updates on this thread.

Interesting indeed. There could be an announcement on Monday I suppose.

if sony release it  in begin dec sales are gonne be gigantic..maybe that is whas sony wants.. if they release it late dec of jan...big fail

I think there is a lot at stake with GT5. Will have to wait to see how things turn out.

Here in South Africa, I get most of my games from www.take2.co.za

Check their release date for GT5:

http://www.take2.co.za/games-gran-turismo-5-ps3-2100639.html

4th December. They changed it to that quite soon after the last delay was announced. Don't know if that is accurate or not, but we get all our games at the same time the UK does.

4 Dec is my birthday, just putting that out there folks.

Hope you'll be getting a nice present then :)

GT5 will be on sale 25th NOV 2010. Or so the Australian Sony REP told me :)

Early bday present for me. :>

No offence but I bet that Sony Rep knows jack shit about the new GT5 release. I could be wrong but that's my thought.

And lol we have a thread about a release date...

If only GT5 was coming out this week...